Decline in MTSU enrollment chalked up to better economy, fear of debt

10:22 PM,
Aug. 24, 2013

Written by

Amanda Haggard
The Daily News Journal

For the second year in a row, Middle Tennessee State University is on track for a decrease in enrollment, and at least one area student said fear of debt is keeping him from enrolling.

"Hearing about student-loan debt and higher interest rates just makes me feel like I want to run away from it and forget about it," said Mitchell Stem, a 2008 graduate of Riverdale High School. "It seems too much trouble for what it's worth in the end. I already have a job I like that I know I can move up in."

But enrollment decreases are not only plaguing MTSU, national statistics show nearly every kind of post-secondary ...